Urban sound planning, local air quality and quality of life
Competences:
- Urban sound mapping using in-house developed state-of-the-art calculation techniques.
- Fast and accurate sound mapping at shielded urban locations.
- Extended knowledge regarding the quiet side concept based on sound propagation modelling between urban canyons and perception of environmental noise.
- Designing urban streets to reduce noise exposure at pedestrians and along facades.
- Modelling local air quality by exploiting the link between noise levels and air pollutant concentrations near road traffic.
- Quality of life studies related to urban road traffic based on noise mapping and surveys.
- Detailed modelling of the acoustic effect of building envelope greening measures.
- Intelligent, distributed environmental noise monitoring in cities.
- Soundscape assessment based on sensor networks including automated source identification and anomaly detection (acoustic data mining).
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